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Bois Forte Heritage Center & Cultural Museum in Tower, MN. The Bois Forte Band is an amalgamation of three separate groups, of which the Zagwaandagaawininiwag was the largest component, also known on some documents as Zoongaatigwitoonag ("Strong-wooded Ones", reflected in French as "Les Songatikitons ").
In 2022, the Conservation Fund returned 28,089 acres (43.889 sq mi; 113.67 km 2) of forest land at Nett Lake to the Bois Forte Band. [3] 50% of the reservation is wetland, and the 7,300 acre (30 km 2) Nett Lake is said to be the largest producer of wild rice in the United States.
Little Forks Band of Rainy River Saulteaux [United States] — the southern half of the Little Forks Band of Rainy River Saulteaux [Canada] (below), and are now part of Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, Nett Lake, Koochiching County, Minnesota.
Snake and Kettle River Bands of St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Minnesota (historical) St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Sokaogon Chippewa Community; Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa; Grand Portage Band; Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, merged from Lake Vermilion Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (historical) Little Forks Band of Rainy ...
Flags at the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Tribal Office. As a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, which also includes the bands of Bois Forte, Fond du Lac, Grand Portage, Mille Lacs, and White Earth, the Leech Lake Band is governed by a tribal constitution, written following the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act. The tribe's constitution ...
Bois Forte Band of Chippewa; Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa; Grand Portage Band of Chippewa; Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe; Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe; White Earth Band of Ojibwe; As of July 2003, the six bands have 40,677 enrolled members. The White Earth Band is the largest, which had more than 19,000 members.
An act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota (51st-1st-Ex.Doc.247; 25 Stat. 642), commonly known as the Nelson Act of 1889, was a United States federal law intended to relocate all the Anishinaabe people in Minnesota to the White Earth Indian Reservation in the western part of the state, and expropriate the vacated reservations for sale to European ...
Reservation name Tribe Counties Map Population [Note 1] Notes Bois Forte Indian Reservation: Ojibwe: Itasca, Koochiching, and St. Louis: 984 Fond du Lac Indian Reservation: Ojibwe ...